a controversial confrontation in the Gulf of Tonkin between the United States and North Vietnam forces set the stage for what eventually became US involvement in the Vietnam War. US divisive ...

LBJ Vietnam ... war in South Viet-Nam are coming from North Viet-Nam," Kennedy said last night during a question period before the fifth annual World Assembly of Youth meeting. U.S. patrol in ...

LBJ Vietnam ... war in South Viet-Nam are coming from North Viet-Nam," Kennedy said last night during a question period before the fifth annual World Assembly of Youth meeting. U.S. patrol in ...

Justified by the attacks, congress rapidly approves the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, giving the President power to wage all-out war against North Vietnam without a formal declaration of war.

The Vietnam War (1954-1975), which lasted over two decades ... on U.S. Navy destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy in the Gulf of Tonkin on August 2 and 4, 1964. The U.S. Senate, in response, passed ...

The talks coincided with a joint patrol by the Chinese and Vietnamese coastguards in the northern part of the Gulf of Tonkin, according to the state-run Vietnam News Agency. It was their fourth ...

The Iraq War has produced ... in South Vietnam. Thus the correct historical analogy may not be Nixon’s secret air campaign and incursions into Cambodia, but the Tonkin Gulf incident—the ...

Under their agreement signed in 2000, China and Vietnam agreed on a delimitation line in the gulf, giving Vietnam 53.23 per cent of the gulf and China 46.77 per cent.

President Johnson had committed himself to containing communism in Vietnam. In August 1964, North Vietnamese patrol boats attacked US vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin. The US politicians in Congress ...

August: After an alleged attack by the North Vietnamese on the U.S.S. Maddox, Congress overwhelmingly passes the Gulf of Tonkin ... Vietnam surpass the roughly 33,000 lost in the Korean War.

Vietnam had been a French colony close colonyA country, state or territory ruled over by another country, state or territory. before it was occupied by the Japanese during World War Two.